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Books recommended by Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison recommends 98 books, among them Season of the Witch, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens and Spacetime and Geometry.

Season of the Witch

David Talbot

Economics & politics

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens

K.C. Cole

Biography & memoir

Spacetime and Geometry

Sean Carroll

Science & nature

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

Gerald Jay Sussman

Technology

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Technology

Stubborn Attachments

Tyler Cowen

Technology

Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik

Science & nature

Swimming Across

Andrew Grove

Biography & memoir

Technics and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

Technology

The Arabs

Eugene Rogan

Spirituality & religion

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Richard Hamming

Philosophy

The Big Score

Michael S. Malone

Technology

The Chip

T.R. Reid

Technology

The City in History

Lewis Mumford

History

The Cowshed

Ji Xianlin

History

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Technology

The Educated Mind

Kieran Egan

Psychology

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

Nonfiction

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

History

The Journalist And The Murderer

Janet Malcolm

History

The Little Kingdom

Michael Moritz

History

The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

History

The Man Behind the Microchip

Leslie Berlin

Technology

The Mind–Body Problem

Jonathan Westphal

Philosophy

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

Neil Gershenfeld

Science & nature

The Ocean of Life

Callum Roberts

Science & nature

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

History

The Paris Review Interviews

The Paris Review

Arts & entertainment

The Planet Remade

Oliver Morton

Economics & politics

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Sebastian Mallaby

Money & investing